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I still have no clue what you mean by "precedence is stronger than scalar_of_array". Could you explain what you mean instead of just giving examples? The result of your example is quite obvious to me; it doesn't contain a single surprise. But it doesn't explain to me what an earth "precedence is stronger than scalar_of_array" is. To me, it sounds as logical as "wednesday is bluer than noise".
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Re^10: Operator overloading with returning lists?
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 01, 2008 at 16:43 UTC
    That the code in the parens have precedence in evaluation before a scalar-like function is applied on a returned list.

    Cheers Rolf

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      Well, yes, but that's because what's inside the parens is an operand of an operator whose result is an argument to the function. It's not any different from: 
      some_sub(EXPR1 + EXPR2)

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      EXPR1 is evaluated before some_sub is called. And since perl5 doesn't have lazy evaluation, and unlike to get it any time soon, it's going to stay like this for a while.

      But that has little to do with precedence (or at least not with the precedence people talk about when talking about operator precedence); the only 'rule' that's in effect is that arguments (and parameters) are evaluated before the operators/subs themselves.

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